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dc.contributor.authorDafalla, Yousif
dc.contributor.authorLiu, Bo
dc.contributor.authorHahn, Dalton A.
dc.contributor.authorWu, Hongyu
dc.contributor.authorAhmadi, Reza
dc.contributor.authorBardas, Alexandru G.
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-20T19:10:42Z
dc.date.available2023-03-20T19:10:42Z
dc.date.issued2020-07-15
dc.identifier.citationY. Dafalla, B. Liu, D. A. Hahn, H. Wu, R. Ahmadi and A. G. Bardas, "Prosumer Nanogrids: A Cybersecurity Assessment," in IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 131150-131164, 2020, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3009611.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1808/34066
dc.description.abstractNanogrids are customer deployments that can generate and inject electricity into the power grid. These deployments are based on behind-the-meter renewable energy resources and are labeled as “prosumer setups”, allowing customers to not only consume electricity, but also produce it. A residential nanogrid is comprised of a physical layer that is a household-scale electric power system, and a cyber layer that is used by manufacturers and/or grid operators to remotely monitor and control the nanogrid. With the increased penetration of renewable energy resources, nanogrids are at the forefront of a paradigm shift in the operational landscape and their correct operation is vital to the electric power grid. In this paper, we perform a cybersecurity assessment of a state-of-the art residential nanogrid deployment. For this purpose, we deployed a real-world experimental nanogrid setup that is based on photovoltaic (PV) generation. We analyzed the security and the resiliency of this system at both the cyber and physical layers. While we noticed improvements in the cybersecurity measures employed in the current nanogrid compared to previous generations, there are still major concerns. Our experiments show that these concerns range from exploiting well-known protocols, such as Secure Shell (SSH) and Domain Name Service (DNS), to the leakage of confidential information, and major shortcomings in the software updating mechanism. While the compromise of multiple nanogrids can have a negative effect on the entire power grid, we focus our analysis on individual households and have determined through Simulink-based simulations the economic loss of a compromised deployment.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipNational Science Foundation under Grant 1850406.en_US
dc.publisherIEEEen_US
dc.rightsCopyright 2022 by the Authors. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.en_US
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en_US
dc.subjectCyber-attacksen_US
dc.subjectCyber-physical systemsen_US
dc.subjectCybersecurityen_US
dc.subjectDistributed energy resourcesen_US
dc.subjectCPS gatewayen_US
dc.subjectMicrogridsen_US
dc.subjectNanogridsen_US
dc.subjectProsumersen_US
dc.subjectPhotovoltaic (PV) systemsen_US
dc.titleProsumer Nanogrids: A Cybersecurity Assessmenten_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
kusw.kuauthorDafalla, Yousif
kusw.kuauthorHahn, Dalton
kusw.kuauthorWu, Hongyu
kusw.kuauthorAhmadi, Reza
kusw.kuauthorBardas, Alexandru G.
kusw.kudepartmentElectrical Engineering & Computer Scienceen_US
kusw.kudepartmentElectrical Engineering & Computer Scienceen_US
kusw.kudepartmentElectrical Engineering & Computer Scienceen_US
kusw.kudepartmentElectrical Engineering & Computer Scienceen_US
kusw.kudepartmentElectrical Engineering & Computer Scienceen_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3009611en_US
dc.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-0476-7367en_US
dc.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-2965-7714en_US
dc.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-7117-2155en_US
dc.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-5223-6635en_US
dc.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-3969-7146en_US
dc.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-3043-5905en_US
kusw.oaversionScholarly/refereed, publisher versionen_US
kusw.oapolicyThis item meets KU Open Access policy criteria.en_US
dc.rights.accessrightsopenAccessen_US


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